It is of use from time to time to take stock, so to speak, of our knowledge of a particular
disease, to see exactly where we stand in regard to it, to inquire to what conclusions the
accumulated facts seem to point, and to ascertain in what direction we may look for fruitful
investigations in the future [1] With these words William Osler began the first of three seminal
lectures on endocarditis to the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1885. As modern
medicine moves into the twenty-first century after decades of rapid scientific advancement it …

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